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Malachi 2:15 · BSB
2:15 Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
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…If you see, God says there, return to me and I will return to you. That's where we're driving this morning, to that verse, return to me. Do haveMalachi chapter 2and 3 open in front of you. If you've got a pew Bible in front of you, it's page 961. Let me begin with a massive spoiler. If you haven't seen The…
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Okay folks, keep that passage inMalachi chapter 2open in front of you. So this is the proverbial cod liver oil tablet passage. Really hard to swallow, but really good for our bodies. Really good…
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…time I think ever in my life, and just how encouraging it is to hear Sarah have the same experience as well. I want you to come expectantly toMalachi chapter 2, as we come to God's holy and into his holy presence and to his living and active word. Malachi chapter 2, 1 to 9. So there's four faces on the…
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…others to sacrifice for them instead. So, we can see why God insisted on Israelites keeping their covenant. There are two reasons. In verse 10 ofMalachi chapter 2, it says that God is their father and their creator. So, one reason is who God is. Who God is to Israelites even more special than non-Israelites…
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…the rest of your life, okay? And so on us to think biblically about the question, how to live when it feels like it doesn't matter. Uh, fromMalachi chapter 2, starting in verse 17, this is what the people said to God. Or God says to them, He says, You have wearied the Lord with your words, but you say,…
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…name, I pray. Amen. Amen. You can be seated. Awesome. Hara, are we good? Oh, okay. Here, your Bibles, would you go ahead and grab those? Go toMalachi chapter 2. Malachi chapter 2. If you don't have a Bible, you can just relax as these passages are gonna appear here on your screen. But I'd I'd love for all…
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…we're going to take them for our wives, and we're going to send away our Jewish wives. Seems to be the same situation that Malachi is describing inMalachi chapter 2. Malachi chapter 2 is a very difficult text to understand and contains what may be the most difficult passage in Scripture to translate. So let's…
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…help you as you raise your children you can't cry out to him because you are such a great person. No you cry out to him because God has told us inMalachi chapter 2that the heart and desire of him is that there would be godly children who would be raised to worship him generation after generation. And so you…
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…living. Priests are meant to provide instructions for accurate living. And those instructions come from the word. You can read the reference later,Malachi chapter 2, 6 and 7. Secondly, it says, walk in his path. So we first model it. We model their behavior and that pattern of accurate living based on the word.…
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…and protecting our marriages falls on us and shame on us if it's our wives that are the ones fighting to keep things together. What did God say inMalachi chapter 2? For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her says the Lord the God of Israel covers his garment with violence says the Lord of hosts so…
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…wants them to do. Malachi is at the same time as Ezra. They're friends. They preach to the same people. And Malachi is going to preach his sermon,Malachi chapter 2, and it says, the Lord hates divorce. It's an abomination to him. So why is Ezra telling him to do it? Well, the Lord does hate divorce. It's the…
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…sin. But not every divorce is therefore sinful. Do you get that? Every divorce is the product of sin. But not every divorce is therefore sinful. InMalachi chapter 2, the Bible very clearly says God hates divorce. So do you. So do you. And some Christians have argued and do argue that there can only be some…
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…prepared by Malachi. Prophesied by Malachi. Malachi is the last book of the Bible. It's the book in your Bible before the Gospel of Matthew. AndMalachi chapter 2and verse 1. This is the prophet who was to come before the Messiah. And in verse 14 of that chapter, he is the Elijah. It's another reference to…
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Turn back toMalachi chapter 2and 3. ! There's one thing that I want you to take from this passage this morning. ! It's that God cleans up. God cleans up. The God of the Bible…
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…non-negotiable is that divorce is never ideal. Even those who hold that narrower view must admit that it happens at times. But it is never ideal.Malachi chapter 2and verse 16. The ESV says this, for the man who does not love his wife but divorces her says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with…
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…do we start believing you, Mr. Integrity? This isn't helpful. I'm just asking you the question. God takes vows seriously. So seriously, in fact, inMalachi chapter 2, this is what he says. This is God, because Israel has profaned the covenant. Every covenant involves a vow. This is what God says in Malachi…
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…want you to look in your Bible just for a moment to Malachi. Malachi. We're talking about marriage just for a moment and I want you to step over toMalachi chapter 2. I'm sorry, is chapter 2, verse 15. Hey, is marriage easy? And the answer is not on your life because it takes two sinners and brings them into…
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…relationship to perpetuate the human race. In Genesis chapter 1, verse 28, God says, be fruitful and multiply. At the end of the Old Testament, inMalachi chapter 2, we're told that God made them one because he was seeking godly offspring. And so God designed marriage to be the context in which children are…
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…strange and it really messes up churches and is doing that regularly nowadays Guys one of the things we are supposed to do as priests go toMalachi chapter 2Malachi chapter 2 We have a common priesthood in God look at Malachi 2 and you'll see one of the things that we are supposed to know Malachi 2…
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…in Jesus' time. This was a problem in the days of Isaiah as well. It's also a problem in the days of Malachi after Israel's return from exile.Malachi chapter 2. This is the prophet right before Matthew if you don't know where that's at. Just before Matthew, Malachi chapter 2. After God is commended by the…
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